Tag: mary
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Joey, Joe, or Joseph?
This is an edited repost from 2021. THERE IS A TRADITION that St Joseph was much older that the Blessed Virgin when they were betrothed. One saint suggests that Jesus’ Foster Father was 91 when he married the Blessed Virgin! Other teachers, suggest mid-fifties. The reason for this tradition is generally understood to be the…
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Friday Night, T2
You conceived the Logos without seed, and gave birth to the one Christ; for you bore a new Child, your Creator. Wherefore, we magnify you, О Theotokos.
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Monday Night, T2
Looking upon the grievous slothfulness of my soul and the utter weakness of my heart, О Mother of God, heal me by your supplications and grant me the portion of the saved, delivering me from darkness and torment, in that you alone are my hope and consolation.
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Wednesday Night, T1
О Virgin who gave nourishment to One of the Trinity, О beauteous garden of paradise, salvation of mortals: by your protection save those who piously hymn you, for you gave birth to Him Who spake in the prophets, and bore Him Who upholds all things, in that you are the Mother of Christ God.
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Monday Night, T1
Guide my wretched life, О pure one, and take pity on my soul, which has stumbled into the abyss of perdition through many transgressions, О all-immaculate one; and at the hour of my death free me from the accusing demons and from the terrible sentence.
Orthoparadoxy 